. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. ly the power, but it was a process that went on in-Duke of Normandy became King of Eng- dependently of, and in spite of, the politicalland, we cannot tell at any length. There forms of the time, until at last it shatteredwere very small racial and social differences those forms altogether. Europe during thosebetween Angle, Saxon, Jute, Dane, or eleven centuries of the imitation CaesarsNorman ; and though these changes loom which began with Charlemagne, and whichlarge in the imaginations of the English, they closed only in th
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. ly the power, but it was a process that went on in-Duke of Normandy became King of Eng- dependently of, and in spite of, the politicalland, we cannot tell at any length. There forms of the time, until at last it shatteredwere very small racial and social differences those forms altogether. Europe during thosebetween Angle, Saxon, Jute, Dane, or eleven centuries of the imitation CaesarsNorman ; and though these changes loom which began with Charlemagne, and whichlarge in the imaginations of the English, they closed only in the monstrous bloodshed ofare seen to be very slight rufflings indeed of 1914-1918, has been like a busy factorythe stream of history when we measure owned by a somnambulist, who is sometimesthem by the standards of a greater world, quite unimportant and sometimes disas-The issue between Christianity and paganism i y^^e stubbs liisiory of Germany in the Middlevanished presently from the struggle. By Ages, and Bryces Holy Roman Empire. CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES 345. trously in the way. Or rather than a som-nambulist, let us say by a corpse thatmagically simulates a kind of life. TheRoman Empire staggers, sprawls, is thrustofE the stage, and reappears, and—if we maycarry the image one step further—it is theChurch of Rome which plays the part of themagician and keeps this corpse alive. And throughout the whole period thereis always a struggle going on for the controlof the corpse between the spiritual andvarious temporal powers. We have alreadynoted the spirit of St. Augustines City ofGod. It was a book which we know Charle-magne read, or had read to him—for hisliterary accomplishments are rather question-able. He conceived of this Christian Empireas being ruled and maintained in its ortho-doxy by some such great Caesar as was to rule even the Pope. But at Romethe view taken of the revived empire differeda little from that. There the view taken wasthat the Christ
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